xxiv, 975 p., 64 p. of plates : 29 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Cacao use in Yucatán among the pre-Hispanic Maya / Gabrielle Vail -- Tempest in a chocolate pot : origin of the word cacao / Martha J. Macri -- Ancient Gods and Christian celebrations : chocolate and religion / Louis Evan Grivetti, Beatriz Cabezon -- Chocolate and sinful behaviors : inquisition testimonies / Beatriz Cabezon, Patricia Barriga, Louis Evan Grivetti -- Nation of nowhere : Jewish role in colonial American chocolate history / Celia D. Shapiro -- Medicinal chocolate in new Spain, western Europe, and North America ; Chocolate and the Boston smallpox epidemic of 1764 ; From bean to beverage : historical chocolate recipes / Louis Evan Grivetti -- Chocolate as medicine : imparting dietary advice and moral values through 19th century North American cookbooks / Deanna Pucciarelli -- Chocolate preparation and serving vessels in early North America / Amanda Lange -- Silver chocolate pots of colonial Boston / Gerald W.R. Ward -- Is it a chocolate pot? Chocolate and its accoutrements in France from cookbook to collectible / Suzanne Perkins -- Commercial chocolate pots : reflections of cultures, values, and times / Margaret Swisher -- Role of trade cards in marketing chocolate during the late 19th century / Virginia Westbrook -- Commercial chocolate posters : reflections of cultures, values, and times / Margaret Swisher -- Chocolate at the World's Fairs, 1851-1964 / Nicholas Westbrook -- Pirates, prizes, and profits : cocoa and early American east coast trade ; How much is that cocoa in the window? Cocoa's position in the early American marketplace / Kurt Richter, Nghiem Ta

"C" is for chocolate : chocolate and cacao as educational themes in 18th century North America ; Chocolate, crime, and the courts : selected English trial documents, 1693-1834 ; Dark chocolate : chocolate and crime in North America and elsewhere / Louis Evan Grivetti -- Chocolate and other colonial beverages / Frank Clark -- Chocolate production and uses in 17th and 18th century North America / James F. Gay -- Chocolate's early history in Canada / Catherine Macpherson -- A necessary luxury : chocolate in Louisbourg and New France / Anne Marie Lane Jonah, Ruby Fougére, Heidi Moses -- Chocolate manufacturing and marketing in Massachusetts, 1700-1920 / Anne Blaschke -- Boston chocolate : newspaper articles and advertisements, 1705-1825 / Louis Evan Grivetti -- Dutch cacao trade in New Netherland during the 17th and 18th centuries / Peter G. Rose -- Chocolate consumption and production in New York's Upper Hudson River Valley, 1730-1830 / W. Douglas McCombs -- Chocolate makers in 18th century Pennsylvania / James F. Gay -- Breakfasting on chocolate : chocolate in military life on the Northern frontier, 1750-1780 / Nicholas Westbrook, Christopher D. Fox, Anne McCarty -- Chocolate and North American whaling voyages / Christopher Kelly -- Blood, conflict, and faith : chocolate in the southeast and southwest borderlands, 1641-1833 / Beatriz Cabezon, Patricia Barriga, Louis Evan Grivetti -- Sailors, soldiers, and padres : California chocolate, 1542?-1840 / Louis Even Grivetti, Patricia Barriga, Beatriz Cabezon -- From gold bar to chocolate bar : California's chocolate history / Bertram M. Gordon -- Caribbean cocoa : planting and production / Janet Henshall Momsen, Pamela Richardson -- Caribbean chocolate : preparation, consumption, and trade / Janet Henshall Momsen, Pamela Richardson

History of cacao cultivation and chocolate consumption in Cuba / Niurka Núñez González, Estrella González Noriega-- History of cacao and chocolate in Cuban literature, games, music, and culinary arts / Estrella González Noriega, Niurka Núñez González -- Establishing cacao plantation culture in the Atlantic world : Portuguese cacao cultivation in Brazil and West Africa, circa 1580-1912 / Timothy Walker -- Cure or confection? Chocolate in the Portuguese royal court and colonial hospitals, 1580-1830 / Timothy Walker -- Chocolate in France : evolution of a luxury product ; Commerce, colonies, and cacao : chocolate in England from introduction to industrialization ; Chinese chocolate : ambergris, emperors, and export ware / Bertam M. Gordon -- Cacao, haciendas, and the Jesuits : letters from New Spain, 1693-1751 / Beatriz Cabezon -- From stone metates to steel mills : the evolution of chocolate manufacturing / Rodney Snyder, Bradley Foliart Olsen, Laura Pallas Brindle -- Adulteration : the dark world of "dirty" chocolate / Laura Pallas Brindle, Bradley Foliart Olsen -- Making colonial era chocolate : the colonial Williamsburg experience / James F. Gay, Frank Clark -- American heritage chocolate / Eric Whitacre, William Bellody, Rodney Snyder -- Twenty-first century attitudes and behaviors regarding the medicinal use of chocolate / Deanna Pucciarelli, James Barrett -- Symbols from ancient times : paleography and the St. Augustine chocolate saga / Beatriz Cabezon, Louis Evan Grivetti -- Digging for chocolate in Charleston and Savannah / Laura Pallas Brindle, Bradley Foliart Olsen -- Management of cacao and chocolate data : design and development of a chocolate research portal / Matthew Lange -- Base metal chocolate pots in North America : context and interpretation /Phil Dunning, Christopher D. Fox

Blue and gray chocolate : searching for American Civil War chocolate references / Louis Evan Grivetti -- Chocolate futures : promising areas for further research / Louis Evan Grivetti, Howard-Yana Shapiro

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